P.R. Laws tit. 8, § 448a
The court, taking into account the best interests and safety of the minor, may issue a [protection] order when it determines that there are sufficient grounds to believe that the minor has been the victim of abuse or neglect, or that there is imminent risk of his or her being so victimized. Without the following being construed as a limitation, the order may:
(a) Adjudicate temporary custody of the abused minors or those at imminent risk of being abused to the petitioner, the Department of the Family, or the nearest relative who guarantees the minor’s wellbeing and safety.
(b) Order the respondent is the latter has custody of the minors, to move out of the house that he or she shares with the minors, regardless of the right that respondent may claim thereto.
(c) Order the respondent to refrain from bothering, pestering, harassing, persecuting, intimidating, threatening, or otherwise interfering with the exercise of temporary custody over the minors that has been adjudicated to petitioner or to the nearest relative to the whom it has been granted.
(d) Order the respondent to refrain from coming near or entering any place where the minors are, when at the discretion of the court that restriction is needed to prevent respondent from mistreating, intimidating, pestering, bothering, threatening, or otherwise interfering with the minors.
(e) Order the respondent to pay the rent or mortgage of the house where the minors live when respondent has been ordered to move out, or to pay child support for the minors if he or she has a legal obligation to do so.
(f) Order the respondent to participate in the programs or receive the treatment needed to stop his or her abusive or neglectful conduct toward the minors.
(g) Order the respondent to pay for the programs or for the treatment needed that he or she receives, or that the minors victims of abuse or neglect must receive.
(h) Issue any order needed to enforce the purposes and public policy of this chapter.
History —Aug. 1, 2003, No. 177, § 58, eff. 90 days after Aug. 1, 2003.